April 08, 2003

wing to wing, still

I would have used this one at my own wedding, except I didn't know it then. Today,
it's for Jenn and Rick, and also still
for me and Rudder, as we welcome them to the community of the very-happily-
married. Maybe they live there a very long time.

THE MASTER SPEED
Robert Frost

No speed of wind or water rushing by

But you have speed far greater. You can climb

Back up a stream of radiance to the sky,

And back through history up the stream of time.

And you were given this swiftness, not for haste,

Nor chiefly that you may go where you will,

But in the rush of everything to waste,

That you may have the power of standing still-

Off any still or moving thing you say.

Two such as you with such a master speed

Cannot be parted nor be swept away

From one another once you are agreed

That life is only life forevermore

Together wing to wing and oar to oar.

I've posted this one href="http://dichroic.diaryland.com/010325_64.html">before, way back when this
journal was very new and I had been away from my husband for far too long, a thing
I will never do again without a far better reason than "my company told me to".
(And yes, this would be the place that laid me off four months after I came back.)
I liked what Jenn's sister said, too, about their working out over time the degree
to which who protects whom; I think that may be one of the things it's necessary
to agree on, to stay together. Rudder mostly doesn't shelter me, and vice versa,
but that's what works for us. Seems like with most issues in a long-term
partnership, it's not so much what you agree on that matters, as whether you do
agree, or at least can find a way to remove that issue from
argument.

And starting in 2.2 days, I get to spend ten whole days with my husband! Whoohoo!
Whoever designed this work system where we see our random coworkers more than out
chosen mates ... well, was probably going back to hunter-gatherer patterns. But
you'd still think we'd have improved on that by now. Someone told me yesterday
about an Orthodox Jewish man who quit his job because it didn't allow him to spend
at least 12 hours a day with his family. Considering eight hours of that is
probably sleep, that sounds more than reasonable to me.

In other news entirely: I got href="http://fivehundred.diaryland.com">LIPS!!!!

(Listed as Paula, not Dichroic)

Posted by dichroic at April 8, 2003 04:59 PM
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